Chassis and Scale

Chassis

Chassis noun - The skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor.

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Scale and chassis are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scale" instead a noun "Chassis".

Scale noun - A device for measuring weight.

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Chassis and scale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chassis" instead a noun "Scale".

Nearby Words: scaled, scaling, scalable

old	old chassis	old scale
similar	similar chassis	similar scale
current	current chassis	current scale
single	single chassis	single scale
Other adjectives: small, actual, entire, massive, large, huge, lower, new, universal, larger, basic, different.

Drop Ship: Most large ships function as this on a small scale, transporting one or two small land vehicles that lock into and out of the main chassis.

Source: Toys / LEGO Space
Famously averted in the Steven Spielberg comedy 1941 which used an accurate full-scale replica of an M3 medium tank built on the chassis of another one of the huge family of M3/M4 based vehicles.

Source: Tanks, but No Tanks
Saving Private Ryan had 2/3 scale mock-ups of Tiger tanks based on the chassis of Soviet T-34s and almost genuine (see below) Marder III tank destroyers (confusingly referred to as "panzers" by the Americans, but then, see Real Life below to see why they're not wrong).

Source: Tanks, but No Tanks

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